In The Light Bulb Effect: Finding Peace After Life Has Broken You into Pieces, Jennifer Michelle shares words of encouragement and advice that shine a light on the path to success and happiness. She aims to guide readers toward rising above the limitations of brokenness...

In The Night Blooming, twin siblings Sally and Jonah Ismael share their heartbreaking story of rejection and abuse and how they overcame fear, self-doubt, and other challenges on their journey to attain black belts in Taekwondo. Born to Arab parents from Israel, Sally and Jonah...

The Journey is a powerful memoir written by Amirah F. Smith, chronicling her struggles with mental health and infertility. The book explores her desire to have children, but her fear of continuing the cycle of single motherhood in her family causes her to delay. Unfortunately,...

The Genteel Poor: A Childhood Memoir by William Karl Thomas is told throughout several generations as the family goes from being wealthy to becoming poor. After the Civil War ended and later the Depression, there were a lot of “genteel poor.” These were folks who...

Kathleen Rose Morgan's The Seller of Secrets is an incredibly inspiring memoir. This book tells the story of Kathleen's journey from a childhood filled with abuse and trauma to the strong and resilient woman she is today. As a young girl, Kathleen craved her mother's...

Family is our first experience of love, trust, support, and all things good in life. But it can also be our first experience with hatred, bitterness, anger, darkness, and so many bad things. When the one that you love most, the one who you’ve experienced...

The Pianist's Only Daughter by Kathryn Betts Adams is a memoir that chronicles the author's life and, most poignantly, her role as a caregiver to both her ailing parents. Adams describes an upbringing in the 1960s and 1970s that teeters between her parents' talents and...

Dr. Edith Shiro details her five-stage model for post-traumatic growth in her book, The Unexpected Gift of Trauma, written in two parts. Dr. Shiro begins by explaining the terms surrounding trauma and provides an in-depth look at post-traumatic growth, keeping culture, generation, and neurochemistry in...

The Murder of Angela Mischelle Lawless by Stephen R. Snodgrass is the story of An Honest Sheriff and the Exoneration of an Innocent Man. In 1992, 19-year-old Mischelle Lawless was found dead in her car in a small town in Missouri. Despite having an ironclad...

In Risa August's memoir The Road Unpaved, Risa receives a diagnosis of a pituitary macroadenoma and acromegaly, then embarks on a cycling journey with a mixed bag of fellow riders, including guides Jimmy Buffett and Mama Bear, emotionally working through the end of her marriage...